Clean Up Crew with Blue Throat Niger Trigger ?

mrvn · Jun 10, 2016

Hi everyone!

I'm planing on adding a blue throat niger trigger to my tank but I would like to know what kind of clean up crew I can have. Currently I have a yellow tang, a pair of davinci clowns, and a mandarin so the niger trigger would be the only aggressive fish in my reef.

Thanks,

Diesel · Jun 10, 2016

Clowns can stand the fins too as the yellow will be on his tangs in the beginning.
Your trigger might go after your snails.
How big a tank you have?

Darryl · Jun 10, 2016

My Niger doesn't hurt anything

mrvn · Jun 10, 2016

Diesel said:
How big a tank you have?

My tank is 125 gallon

mrvn · Jun 10, 2016

Darryl said:
My Niger doesn't hurt anything

Amazing fish!! Do you keep snails in your tank?

merlberg · Jun 10, 2016

mrvn said:
Amazing fish!! Do you keep snails in your tank?

I have a niger as well n still have all my snails and 3 shrimps in my 120 :)

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Darryl · Jun 11, 2016

mrvn said:
Amazing fish!! Do you keep snails in your tank?

Yes and shrimp and crabs
funny to watch the niger lay on side and let the shrimp climb on and clean him

Darryl · Jun 11, 2016

doesn't bother a thing has been in here for about a year

Darbna · Jun 11, 2016

I have a trigger the same size. If you are adding him after the the tangs you "should" be alright. Every fish is diffrent. I added a white cheek tang behind my Trigger and the Niger Trigger Beat him up so bad the tag looked dead. I had to get the trigger out of the tank for a few days and let the tang establish himself. Once I entered the Trigger back, every thing has been good.

mrvn · Jun 11, 2016

Darryl said:
Yes and shrimp and crabs
funny to watch the niger lay on side and let the shrimp climb on and clean him

What kind of niger do you have? I've read that the blue throat are less aggressive

mrvn · Jun 11, 2016

Darbna said:
I have a trigger the same size. If you are adding him after the the tangs you "should" be alright. Every fish is diffrent. I added a white cheek tang behind my Trigger and the Niger Trigger Beat him up so bad the tag looked dead. I had to get the trigger out of the tank for a few days and let the tang establish himself. Once I entered the Trigger back, every thing has been good.

Do you have more tangs in you tank besides the white cheek? I'm worried it will eat my clowns since they are still small

merlberg · Jun 11, 2016

Darbna said:
I have a trigger the same size. If you are adding him after the the tangs you "should" be alright. Every fish is diffrent. I added a white cheek tang behind my Trigger and the Niger Trigger Beat him up so bad the tag looked dead. I had to get the trigger out of the tank for a few days and let the tang establish himself. Once I entered the Trigger back, every thing has been good.

So are you saying when 2 fish have a problem, you can leave the new one to get established remove the older fish for a few days n tgen reintroduce the okd fish to the tank n they MIGHT get along? If so i never thought to do tht but its wortg a try if my tangs dnt get along

Darbna · Jun 12, 2016

merlberg said:
So are you saying when 2 fish have a problem, you can leave the new one to get established remove the older fish for a few days n tgen reintroduce the okd fish to the tank n they MIGHT get along? If so i never thought to do tht but its wortg a try if my tangs dnt get along

I have 2 small half dollar size blue hippo tangs, two 3-4 inch yellow, a Kole Tang, and the white cheek. I have a blue Niger Trigger, 4 tiny clowns, 4 anthias (1 male, 3 female) Watchman Goby, Purple Dotty back, 1 inch Yellow Corris Wrasse that I hardly see, and a lawn mower Blenny that I just got. I have had it suggested to me if a tang is dominant towards the other fish or tangs that it will eventually kill the other fish it is showing dominate towards. They are nasty to each other. When I entered the 2 yellow after QT for a few weeks, the white cheek went ape Sh**. I basically screwed myself and found myself pulling out all the rock to capture him at 10 o'clock at night. Not fun. I put him in QT for a few days, and it allowed me to re arrange the rock work a little better than what I had it before, and it looked different to the white cheek when he came back and by then the yellows were in charge and put down on the white cheek. He stood his ground a little but it ended well and so far they are all getting along together, eating together on the nori strips, and not fighting much, other than the occasional fin flair up where they size each other up. Hope this helps, I am no expert by any means, just been reading alot and what I have found is no fish is alike, and just because it is from a species that is said to to XY and Z, doenst mean it will do XY and Z. Just like dogs or other animals. Not all collies heard sheep, and not all st. Bernards rescue people on ski slopes, lol. Good luck and I hope this helped.

mrvn · Jun 12, 2016

Darbna said:
I have 2 small half dollar size blue hippo tangs, two 3-4 inch yellow, a Kole Tang, and the white cheek. I have a blue Niger Trigger, 4 tiny clowns, 4 anthias (1 male, 3 female) Watchman Goby, Purple Dotty back, 1 inch Yellow Corris Wrasse that I hardly see, and a lawn mower Blenny that I just got

Amazing stock!!! I was thinking on adding a white cheek tang instead of the niger trigger, but there's not too much information about that fish and the only available says that it is as hard to keep as the achilles

Darbna · Jun 12, 2016

mrvn said:
Amazing stock!!! I was thinking on adding a white cheek tang instead of the niger trigger, but there's not too much information about that fish and the only available says that it is as hard to keep as the achilles

Hes been ok.

merlberg · Jun 12, 2016

Darbna said:
I have 2 small half dollar size blue hippo tangs, two 3-4 inch yellow, a Kole Tang, and the white cheek. I have a blue Niger Trigger, 4 tiny clowns, 4 anthias (1 male, 3 female) Watchman Goby, Purple Dotty back, 1 inch Yellow Corris Wrasse that I hardly see, and a lawn mower Blenny that I just got. I have had it suggested to me if a tang is dominant towards the other fish or tangs that it will eventually kill the other fish it is showing dominate towards. They are nasty to each other. When I entered the 2 yellow after QT for a few weeks, the white cheek went ape Sh**. I basically screwed myself and found myself pulling out all the rock to capture him at 10 o'clock at night. Not fun. I put him in QT for a few days, and it allowed me to re arrange the rock work a little better than what I had it before, and it looked different to the white cheek when he came back and by then the yellows were in charge and put down on the white cheek. He stood his ground a little but it ended well and so far they are all getting along together, eating together on the nori strips, and not fighting much, other than the occasional fin flair up where they size each other up. Hope this helps, I am no expert by any means, just been reading alot and what I have found is no fish is alike, and just because it is from a species that is said to to XY and Z, doenst mean it will do XY and Z. Just like dogs or other animals. Not all collies heard sheep, and not all st. Bernards rescue people on ski slopes, lol. Good luck and I hope this helped.

Wow .... Your stock tho [emoji7] [emoji51]. Id love to have a stock like yours. How did the 2 yellow tangs get along because id love to have 2 yellows but i hear it should be an odd number or they will kill each other? What size is your tank and u mind taking a pic of it :). Yes you have helped a great deal. Thank you n i hope it works for me when the time comes lol